Sunday there were rumors on the internet about the United Nations sending out an alien ambassador. The Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman was expected to take the job as the head of the U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs. Othman said there is only one way this would ever happen. There would have to be extraterrestrial visitors first. Alien contact is not as much of a far-reached idea as it was in the past. There are many discoveries of planets outside of the solar system. Stephen Hawking has told Earth to be cautious as there could be extraterrestrial existence. There isn’t going to be an extraterrestrial ambassador, claims the British newspaper after it received an e-mail from Othman.
The U.N. would be the ones speaking with the aliens?
The rumor flew all over the world as it “broke” in the Sunday Times that Mazlan Othman would be the ambassador appointed by the United Nations to visit aliens. Othman was quoted by the Sunday Times talking about the search for transmission from aliens. Othman said Earth should have a coordinated response and that the United Nations will be the best organization for the job. Othman was said by the Australian to be in Britain next week for a scientific conference sponsored by the Royal Society. It said she would be speaking on contacting the aliens at that time.
The quest for alien life
The first extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, was confirmed to exist in 1992. The Kepler Mission, a NASA space observatory launched in 2009, has identified hundreds of possible exoplanets. There will probably be hardly any alien life to exist. Of course, that did not stop Stephen Hawking from giving his own personal warning. Hawking doesn’t think that humanity should be working so hard to find extraterrestrial life, as outlined by the Sunday Times. He thinks we need to be getting our own messages out and get Earth noticed. Aliens would probably be searching for planets to exploit for their resources. He also said we need only to look in the mirror to imagine the consequences. “We only have to check out ourselves to determine how intelligent life might develop into something we would not want to meet.”
Ambassadors from outer space playing on the planet already
The story about the U.N. alien ambassador did not just come out of the blue. Othman began the rumor. Rather than jump on the bandwagon, the Guardian decided to actually check the facts. Othman’s speech on alien contact was questioned by the British newspaper. It even called the Royal Society to ask about it. Nobody had heard about this. The Office for Outer Space Affairs questions were all referred somewhere else by the United Nations A switchboard in Vienna is where they went. A Guardian e-mail is what got Othman’s reaction where she said there was no U.N. alien ambassador story. All she had to say was, “It sounds really cool, however I have to deny it.” The Royal Society speech is going to be about how earth may be colliding with objects in its path within the near future which is a real problem.
The Australian
theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-un-is-to-appoint-an-astrophysicist-to-be-the-first-contact-for-any-aliens/story-e6frg6so-1225929540635
Sunday Times
timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7107207.ece
The Guardian
guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/sep/27/un-alien-ambassador-mazlan-othman
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